A Subjective Selection Of Great Music From The Seventies…
The song “Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone” suddenly popped into my mind while I was doing the weather report for a newsletter I edit (all the places are sunny this week, after a few mixed weeks) so I looked it up, and found Bill Withers sang it in 1971. The name didn’t really mean […]
Robert Palmer, who joined his first band in England in 1964, released his first solo album “Sneakin Sally Through The Alley” in 1974 – strongly influenced by the funk of Little Feat. It was recorded in New Orleans, Louisiana. Here’s the title track, “Sneakin Sally Through The Alley”: And “Sneakin Sally Through The Alley” live […]
Tags: Addicted to Love, Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor Doctor), David Letterman Show, Every Kinda People, funk, Johnny and Mary, Little Feat, Music of the Seventies, Robert Palmer, Simply Irresistible, Sneakin Sally Through The Alley, Some Guys Have All the Luck, Soul Music, You Are In My SystemThe British New Wave band XTC, with songs like “Statue Of Liberty”, “Radios In Motion”, “Making Plans For Nigel” or their very unique version of the Bob Dylan song “All Along The Watchtower” (most famously covered by Jimi Hendrix), came to my attention towards the end of the Seventies. In the late Seventies, while studying […]
In 1974 Alastair Riddell’s band Space Waltz took New Zealand by storm with “Out On The Street”. The rest of the world, with the exception of Australia, has probably never heard of it. Many considered Alastair to be “New Zealand’s David Bowie”. He certainly cultivated that image. Anyway, that year, Space Waltz were the winners […]
Tags: Alastair Riddell, Band Space, Beautiful Boy, Brent Eccles, Citizen Band, Crowded House, David Bowie, Eccles, Eddie Rayner, Gisborne, Greg Clark, Judd Co, Little Brother, Modern Contour, Music Competition, Music of the Seventies, Neil Finn, New Faces, Out On The Street, Paul McCartney, Peter Cuddihy, Phil Judd, Raynor, Rest Is History, S David, Seventies Rock Bands, Space Waltz, Split Enz, Television Music, Tim Finn, Tony Raynor, X FactorI was thinking that “You’re So Vain”, from 1972, was the only song by Carly Simon song I knew. I soon found there were a number of others. At the time everyone was trying to work out who the song was about. As it turns out, she now says it was the result of various […]
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